Built in Boston : city and suburb, 1800-1950 / Douglass Shand Tucci ; with a foreword by Walter Muir Whitehill.

This book presents a full history of Boston{8217}s architecture, from Charles Bulfinch to Walter Gropius. It also deals at some length with Victorian suburbs as well as with the city proper; and treats seriously not only late nineteenth-century design but also Boston{8217}s early Modernist architect...

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Main Author: Shand-Tucci, Douglass, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : New York Graphic Society, 1978.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Before and after Bullfinch
  • The great traditions
  • H.H. Richardson's Boston
  • Streetcar city, garden suburbs
  • French flats and three-deckers
  • Charles McKim and the classical revival
  • Ralph Adams Cram and Boston gothic
  • The shadow of Louis Sullivan
  • The Boston rialto
  • Toward Gropius.